After playing for a while, recording is a natural evolution for a guitarist or any musician really. Let's have a discussion here and share your experience and questions about Recording Gear, DAW's (Digital Audio Workstations), microphones, and recording techniques. We can all learn a lot, and produce music we're proud of ..read more

Really, a pedal that originally sold for $250 now sells for $8000 used. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=he4k97IzSRs ..read more

This is probably out there a bit, but here goes. You are a fingerstyle player wanting an OM or smaller. There is no budget, but let's set the cap at 10K just to keep it real. The clincher is, this is the only guitar you can own for the rest of your life. It can be something you already have or your dream guitar, but this is the one. What is it? I know many of you bristle at the only one guitar part, but play along. Or give me more than one. I'm just trying to cast a wide net at this point.  ..read more

Hey gang, I just got a new Strymon Cloudburst reverb pedal.  So far I'm loving it and it should replace a couple of pedals on my board. But I'll run it through it's paces over the next week of playing, rehearsals and performances.  I'll keep you posted and should be able to give a full update on a future live lesson. Here's a video about it...   ..read more

Care to guess what's in the gig bag ..read more

Hi Everyone, Recently, I've been trying to record a backing track with my steel string acoustic guitar for a song that I wrote (finally trying to get that dream of writing my very own song off the ground). Anyway, just a little background, I'm using a zoom H1N recorder which doubles as my audio interface. The built in XY condenser microphones pick up well especially when I am playing individual notes. but when I strum chords, it gets really muffled even though I am adjusting the levels so it doesn't seem to clip. When I playback the recording on a headphone or another speaker, it definitely so ..read more

I’ve been wanting a PRS McCarty for a while now and my local shop got this one in the other day.   I decided to trade a PRS SE Custom 24 that I never really warmed up to.   So with a wave of the magic credit card, this one came home with me.     ..read more

Finally!!  I got my slat boards up and the hangers attached.  This is going to be so nice!!!!   If anyone is interested here they are, left to right: 1) Martin M-36 2) Gibson 325 3) PRS Santana 4) Fender Stratocaster 5) PRS Paul's (My favorite!!!) 6) Martin 000-15M 7) Seagull S6 Classic 8. PRS HB1 9) Yamaha Pacifica 10) PRS SE Santana (I posted this photo in the members gallery but thought I would post a thread ..read more

I'm not selling it!  We can't do that here.  But for anyone starting out to build a pedal board.  Or for someone needing a back-up overdrive.  Or for someone stacking overdrives.  Here is an inexpensive Boss SD-1 Super Overdrive on Reverb. This one seems really inexpensive at $38.20.  There is $20 shipping.  But it is described as "mint" condition and it has a 6 month warranty. So, again, for anyone on here that is starting out and building your pedalboard, the overdrive is the foundation of a pedalboard. I think it is fair or accurate to say t ..read more

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